Sega: Vanquish missed sales expectations

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richardhutnik said:

disolitude said:

KylieDog said:

leatherhat said:

Vanquish is a crappy 3rd person shooter that is very low on content and deserves less sales than it has.

 

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This.

In both of your dreams maybe...

In the realworld Vanquish has more single player gameplay goodness in its pinky than Gears of War 2 during the entire game.

Sure it doesn't have MP, but maybe Platinum didn't feel like or had decent ideas in making MP for this game. Many games with pointless, crappy, "me too" MP prove that sometimes less is more...

That doesn't matter.  What matters is people feel they get their money's worth out of a FPS, or any game for that mattter.  Exactly how many hours of gameplay was in the campaign of Vanquish?  And if less than 15, why would anyone spend $60 for it?  Companies keep pumping out single player titles, withat clock in 10 hours or less, and spend tens of millions of dollars on doing this, and then somehow expect to recover their costs?

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-vanquish-blog-entry

4-10 hours total?  Who here expects peoplke to spend $60 for 4-10 hours gameplay total?

You know the game is fun enough that you will want to replay it and the challenge rooms take a while to complete. As for games needing to have 15 hours of single player -- i disagree. Some games are going to be big titles that take long time to complete, others will be short either way the best way to judge the value of a game is how much enjoyment you got out of it not how long you spent playing it.